I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.